Forget the dignity of a museum exhibit. Figure has sent its pioneering F.02 humanoid prototypes to the scrapheap with a cinematic flourish, recreating the legendary Terminator 2 thumbs-up in a vat of molten metal. It’s a brutal, multi-million pound swan song that proves Silicon Valley has a flair for the theatrical—and perhaps a slightly dark sense of humour about the very machines it’s bringing to life. While tech purists might have preferred to see these historic frames preserved for posterity, Figure opted for a decommissioning that was somewhat more… final.
